Women's Volunteer Corps

The was created in April 1944 as a work group for Japanese women.Brandon Palmer, Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies), University of Washington Press, 2013/7/30, , p. 152. The official purpose was to give women a chance to serve the Empire of Japan prior to marriage, it was a means to compel women to perform war time labour duties. It mobilized unmarried women between the age of 12 to 40, while married women where mobilized by the Dai Nippon fujinkai.

See also Korean Women's Volunteer Labour Corps Dai Nippon fujinkai References